Ga. County Removing Evolution Stickers :)

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Evolution-Debate.html?

May 24, 2005
Ga. County Removing Evolution Stickers
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 6:59 a.m. ET

MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) -- Workers in Cobb County have begun removing controversial evolution disclaimer stickers from science textbooks to comply with a judge's order.

By the end of the day Monday, several thousand stickers, which said evolution was a theory and not a fact, had been scraped off. The school district had put 34,452 stickers on textbooks across the county.


..more at link..

Maybe now we can stop the fundie nutjobs from taking our kids back into the Dark Ages....

Science is full of theories. Just teach the students what a theory is and how the word is used. It won't be hard for them to figure out what they were ham-handedly trying to say with that sticker.

Now the rest of you know why we call it that here in Georgia.

and I have never heard the term Corn Cobb County.

We were there when they passed the anti-gay resolution and attended the protest on the Marietta Square. Cobb County is also the home of Newt Gingrich (who graduated from my high school in Columbus, GA). When we moved to North Carolina we traded Newt for Jesse Helms. It was repug hell- Newt or Jesse?

I note in this morning's AJC Cobb is planning on becoming a shining beacon for the arts. I really do not think this will happen so long as the fundies exercise censorship over what can be exhibited, performed and viewed in that part of Georgia. Art must breath free air to flourish. It can only be restricted for so long before it dies. Cobb County may have money but it has no true respect for the arts. Feh on Cobb.

I am a proud Atlantan. And fear to even visit Cobb.

If it weren't the Bible fundies would be raising hell about the sex and violence between the covers.

"Important if true."

And the Baggata Vida (not sure about spelling), and other Hindu sacred books.
And the works of Plato (plenty of religious philosophy in there).
And The Tibetan Book of the Dead, and all other Buddhist sacred books.
And any Jewish works not specifically in the Bible.
And the Gnostic scriptures.
And the Norse, Celtic religious myths.
And American native, African animist, etc. religious stories.
And the various spiritualist works.
Might as well throw in L. Ron Hubbard.
I am sure there are lots more I have missed.

You get the idea.

...into the 1920's.

On the up side, Cobb County just made a deal to buy tens of thousands of Macs for students. How that happened, I'll never know.

Glad to read between the lines and see another Mac addict.

Good news that Apple is back in the eductation business.

For me, the weaker system got the global market...not unlike Beta being set aside for VHS. Everyone suffers.

The Macintosh is a triumph of vision and innovative design...not to be duplicated by any other system.

-Paige
Releasing the Tiger

Tue May 24, 6:59 AM ET

MARIETTA, Ga. - Workers in Cobb County have begun removing controversial evolution disclaimer stickers from science textbooks to comply with a judge's order.
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By the end of the day Monday, several thousand stickers, which said evolution was a theory and not a fact, had been scraped off. The school district had put 34,452 stickers on textbooks across the county.

The evolution disclaimers read: "This textbook contains material on evolution. Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully, and critically considered."

Six parents sued to remove the stickers saying the disclaimers violated the principle of the separation of church and state. A federal judge in January agreed and ordered the stickers removed.

more...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/evolution_debate

:headbang:

the same ones on the Bible.

I'm not hearing that argument anywhere, just the "separation of church and state" phrase. But nobody is making the point that people with such strong religious convictions are perfectly free to send their children to the religious school of their choice, which is what they should do, instead of trying to impose their religion on a public school system.

Catholics and Jews have been doing it for a pretty long time, and getting a good education. There are also plenty of Christian academies. If parents are that exercised over the teaching of evolution, they should exercise their right to choose where to send their children to school.

why isn't anyone saying that? Or--of course, it could be I've missed it

hahaha

any smarter?